Bobby pin placement



.1952 A. a. SUCKLEY BOBBY PIN PLACEMENT Filed July 5, 1949 Patented Jan. 1, 1 952 7 BOBBY PIN PLACEMENT Allison G. Suckley, Wauseon, Ohio Application July 5, 1949, Serial No. 102,972

This invention relates to pre-shaping in conjunction with dispensing installation or placing of elements from a magazine source.

This invention has utility when incorporated with a stack-receiver or holder for toilet articles of the bobby pin type wherein such articles or pins are in series for individual selection. The beauty parlor operator or one experiencing the hair-do may as a one-hand tool direct the dispensing or discharge portion thereof at the reset or placed lock of hair. While the tool is so held, one of the digits, as the thumb, may cause the end pin of a group to be slid off from the series. In this sliding or thrusting, from the loop end, the pair of points are given an initial spread as the points enter the lock or looks of hair. The thrust operation is continued past a signal or snap, informing the operator that the pin is about to clear the dispenser. During this sliding, there is approximated a constant holding apart for the points, so that their course thru the hair may be nearly straight. Upon the snap release of the pin from the tool, the normal spring or yield of the pin new acts to cause the points to tend to approach, thereby locking the pin in situ, for its Wavy or corrugated arms to hold frictionally.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a side view of the dispenser tool in use;

Fig. 2 is a view looking from the region of the reference character 26 to the left into the end of the tool in Fig. 1 and, shown on an enlarged scale with the intermediate upper portion broken away;

Fig. 3 is a side view of the pin-spreading delivery portions of the tool;

Fig. 4 is a view from the line IV-IV, Fig. 3, of the control cam;

Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the pin-supply card. adapted to be inserted in the dispenser tool, as shown in dotted or broken lines; and

Fig. 6 is a partial section on the line VIVI, Fig. 5, showing the seating for the card in the hand-grasp tool.

The case An embodiment of the invention as herein disclosed comprises an attractively appearing case or hand-grasp dispenser body, say of plastic. Beads I form a top trim for parallel sides 2, 3, rising from a base 4. From the side 3 there is a trough portion 5 in the base 4 extending to a ledge 6 toward the side 2 inner face, flush with which side 2 are a plurality of seats 1.

In general contour, the base 4 is parallel to the beads I and from the shorter length base there 2 Claims. (Cl. 1321) is a slant or chute portion 8 as an after-end closure and rigidity-imparting assembly for the sides in addition to the connecting base 4. A top way or opening 9 between the beads I extends from the chute 8 to an obtuse angle at a directing seat IEI from which there is an abrupt open end portion I I to the base 4.

There is thus completed the bounds for this hand-grasp case, say for the operators thumb I2 to be moved along the beads I to the seat Ill, with the operators fingers 13 along the base 4 in directing the dispensing tool toward a lock of hair I4, say in situ at an individuals scalp.

The card Lugs or tongues I 5 may be thrust into the seats 7 with a flange offset lodging at the ledge 6. The flange ofiset I6 is a stiifening means for a diaphragm ll forming the major portion of the card with an inclined end I 8 from the offset I6 adapted to be positioned against the inner face of the chute 8, in extending to a top edge I9 slightly inward from the plane formed by the parallel heads I outer edge.

Remote from the slant or inclined portion I8, and in approximate register with the seat I0 face plane, is a pin-dispensing guide edge I9 extending to an abrupt flange oifset having in continuity therefrom cam portions 20, 2|, 22, to a corner 23. From the corner 23 and in the plane of the card body I! is a flange 24 providing stiffening means or reinforcement for arced platform or guide face 25, being a widened extension from the offset I6 back to the case end I I.

Dispensing Hairpins of the bobby pin type are herein shown as having a loop 26 with a longer arm 21 to an end 28. Parallel to the arm 21, there is extending from the loop 26 a slightly shorter arm 29 to an outwardly deflected tip or end 30 thereby normally spaced from the end 28. In practice these arms 21, 29, have minor corrugations or waves to contribute against slipping from position as deposited in looks of hair. There is such spring or yield characteristic as to hold the arms 21, 29, as free, in longitudinal abutting relation.

There is accordingly a normal frictional holding of the respective pins as an aligned cluster on the card I 1 due to the very slight spacing there provided between the arms 21, 29. The card cluster of pins is assembled in the case between the walls or sides 2, 3, by entering the tongues I5 into the seats I. At this positioning, the points or ends 28 do not quite touch the bottom of the 3, trough while the tips 313 do ride along the offset l6 as the respective pins are in laterally abutting parallel relation at the pitch or incline of the chute 8. The loops 26 are thus in a row at the opening 9 and preferably approach just short of being flush with the outer edge of the beads I. At this position, the flesh of the digit or thumb l2 of the operator may be moved along the beads l toward the seat Hi. When the thumb is in position just back of the loop 28 on the pin as most remote from the chute 8, such end pin may be slid oi the slideway or guide 25. In this operation, the shorter pin end 30 rides from the open end H of the case, in sliding along the offset l6 and the platform or guide 25. As the tip 38 comes to the cam portion 22, a further spread from the arm 29 is effected for the arm 21. The appropriate spread extent for entrance of the ends 28, 30, into the hair I4 is effected as these ends 28, 30, are about to ride beyond the guide 25 and the arm 29 is at the cam portion 2|.

Pushing by the thumb E2 on the loop 2% causes the arms 21, 28, to ride into the hair M, at a practically uniformly held spread position. The spread relation between the pin ends 28, 39, as assembled on the card, is a spacing 3i (Fig. 2) as reaching the cam portion 22. As the ends 28, 30, are shoved along sufficiently as about to clear the card, there is a wider spread or spacing 32.

The operator continues the dispensing thrust for the hobby pin directly into hair-do holding position from the hand-grasp tool, by moving the thumb I2 or other digit along the seat It). As the loop 26 is about to clear the seat It, the arm 2-9 rides clear of a spring tongue or snap 33, as an audible signal to the operator that the pin is about to be cleared of the tool in the arm 29 riding along the cam portion 23. At this position, the experienced operator will find it advantageous in practice to tilt the hand holding the tool, to swing the chute end 8 of the tool away from the scalp, thereby permitting the operators thumb I2 in movement along the guide edge l9 not to be spaced by the end H, but for close approach to the hair 14 in completing the thrusting of the pin at its spread-released condition for final lodgment in its hair-holding position.

With the magazine tool having therein a succession of pins in an orderly row, it is convenient for the operator, as grasping the magazine in one hand, to push, with the thumb of such hand, the pin at the discharge end of the row to cause such pin to be moved relatively to the magazine in this dispensing of such pin. Upon exhaustion of the reserve, a substitute card may be inserted in the case, instead of recharging the pins on the card, which recharging practice may be adopted by the individual, say who reclaims pins after use. The flanges I6, 24, and the cam 20, 2|, 22, impart sufficient rigidity to the card for maintained reliable operation.

What is claimed and it is desired to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A bobby pin placement tool comprising a hand grasp section having a pair of walls extending to an open side forming a way extending to a discharge end, a diaphragm between the walls and extending toward the way and coacting with the way to direct as thrust along the way a linear series of bobby pins located astride the diaphragm and for the pins to move in parallel along the way toward the discharge end, there extending from the diaphragm beyond the discharge end of the section, a. pin point spreading cam, and a guide face carried by and extending from the diaphragm past the cam in positioning a pin for spreading during shifting of the pin along the cam for delivery of the spread pin therefrom by the directed hand grasp section directly into hair.

2. A bobby pin carrier card having along one edge a bobby pin point limiting ledge for positioning the pins to ride astride the card in parallel inclined relation during lateral shifting of said pins, said card having a guide edge portion in obtuse angle extension continuity of said edge there being adjacent said guide portion remote from said edge a pin-point spreading slide way directly approximately parallel to the guide edge portion and over which slide way successive pins are longitudinally shiftable, said guide edge porticn in the direction of the pin longitudinal shifting therealong having a spread release way portion for the pin.

ALLISON G. SUCKLEY.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 2,140,251 Steger r Dec. 13, 1938 2,250,303 Katz July 22', 1941 2,477,034 Avelli July 26, 1949 

